Justin Kranzl

genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree

Take a moment this weekend to leave some Steam Reviews of the games you've been playing- it helps devs SO MUCH! Here's a few games I've been playing recently.

We're currently at the "Jesus didn't say we should feed people"
portion of the fall of American Evangelicalism.

How DARE mere taxpayers (who aren't being paid right now btw because of people like her) waylay Royalty!

A truck emblazoned with American flags and airborne rangers insignia aka has ‘hate has no home here’ stickers

actual patriot sighted:

Making my @rollingstone.com debut writing about Monolith's incredible F.E.A.R. and how the story's meaning has kind of gotten lost over the years.

Alma isn't F.E.A.R.'s villain. Armacham and the people that made her are. She's as much a victim as anyone else, a spirit of vengeance made, not born.

James Gunn’s American Project He is few critics’ idea of a respectable auteur, but his work is more consistently progressive than any other comic-book material today.

I wrote a piece on the work of writer and director James Gunn, who is engaged in a pretty incredible ongoing enterprise that despises bigotry and authoritarianism and reaffirms patriotism for progressives. www.vulture.com/article/jame...

If you listen to this podcast and sign up for my newsletter, I will personally come to your house and put edibles in your Halloween candy.

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Put morality aside, every social safety net program generates or saves more money than every punitive austerity policy.

Housing First? Saves cities thousands.
SNAP/WIC? Generates millions

Why aren't we making fun of these GOP losers who can't do basic math?

Why Has Trump Been Flirting With a Third Term? Trump cannot be president again. But he and his loyal followers have every reason for wanting to make people think he can.

"Can Donald Trump run for a 3rd term?"
No.
"What if he..."
Still no.
"How about..."
STFU, No.
"Then why are we talking about it!?"
Because evil MAGA apparatchiks need you to fear that he will.

I explain in @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and America’s favorite Jewish parents now THAT’S a team up.

Another pro tip for @cnn.com guests: Remember never to say on air that Scott Jennings is lying on air and that network management is paying him to lie on air when, in fact, he is lying on air as the network pays him to do 🤣

hi all, the awaited day has come: I'm looking for freelance writers to pitch Inverse Gaming for end-of-year coverage! namely, I'm looking for someone to contribute our best of RPGs this year list ($350), and pitch us on some year-end lookback essays ($500+). please pitch me: shannon@inverse.com

Percy, an orange cat, curled into a ball in his bed (for cats)

Dinah, a tuxedo cat, curled into a little ball on her bed (for humans)

Hey everyone, the SNAP issue is hitting me and my rent is due so I am asking for help one (last?) more time. Please help my poor beleaguered winter kitties stay warm and housed:

Paypal: paypal.me/rowankaiser
Venmo: account.venmo.com/u/RowanKaiser

[Exclusive] The White House Responds To Its Use of Halo Imagery: 'Yet Another War Ended Under President Trump's Watch' | Alyssa Mercante - Video Games, Internet Culture & More Get more from Alyssa Mercante - Video Games, Internet Culture & More on Patreon

also, ready @alyssamerc.bsky.social 's piece on all this and the baffling response she got from the White House press team

Trump Admin’s Racist Halo Memes Are ‘A New Level of Dehumanization of Immigrants’ 'The White House just marked the end of the console wars; DHS is posting deep fried Halo memes. We are somewhere else entirely.'

thank you to @mikesenters.bsky.social for being so succinct and clear about why this latest wave of Trump branded Halo memes feels so horrifying

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.

“a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service *** Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.” (Andreessen also helped Elon by Twitter.) 10/24/24 … 1/

How would you describe that worldview? My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: “Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.” It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it. In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people.

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

a man in a pittsburgh steelers uniform is watching a football game ALT: a man in a pittsburgh steelers uniform is watching a football game

Courageous stuff and a terrific read. TY

The Power Fantasy of Superman is you still have a staff job on a newspaper.

Gallego: "How can I negotiate? The president is in Asia for 5 days. Johnson is basically keeping the House out until January to protect pedophiles. So who am I negotiating with right now?"

How President Trump is dismantling our democracy, one piece at a time - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington CREW is tracking anti-democratic ethics, transparency and accountability actions that Trump has taken in his second term.

NEW: Donald Trump has taken steps to dismantle our democracy at such a dizzying pace that it's easy to lose track of them. Over time, outrageous and dangerous actions are forgotten and normalized. So @citizensforethics.org is now keeping a timeline of many of the most significant of these steps.

VR wasn’t worth having to live in a world where Palmer Luckey can share his opinions and have anyone take them seriously.

"we can do it much faster and remove the criminals the Law does not permit him to remove"

so... illegally?

I wonder how Krafton's "AI HR" would have handled this case (featuring their current head of publishing):
www.wired.com/story/riot-g...

Current and Former Riot Games Employees File Gender Discrimination Suit The lawsuit is seeking class action status and alleges that many women working at Riot have faced harassment and been denied equal pay.

I know at least one person works there - their chief global publishing officer (mentioned in this article): variety.com/2018/gaming/...